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Hellgate "Elite Play"

Written by Stehil
Sunday, 13 May 2007
In the past few days some of the differences between "Free play" (out of the box) vs "Elite Play" (subscription) have been outlined by Lee Dotson from Flagship Studios. It's worth noting that the subscription is 9.99 USD a month. *~~ Free Play ~~* - Does have customer support but it isn't 24/7 premium customer support. Being 'just an artist' I don't know all the specifics here. - Can join guilds but can't found a guild or use guild officer functions. - Can play with elite players in all areas of the game that come with the shipped game but not in new areas added post launch. - Can not use 'elite' items. It should be noted that elite items are not more powerful/unbalanced items but rather have flashier appearances or simply new items that still fit in the overall balance scheme. - Includes patching/balance updates. (in case that's not obvious) - On the same secure servers as 'elite' players. - Three character slots, - Aprox twenty item Stash - a soft level cap of about 35-40 (not finalized) *~~ Elite ~~* - Regular content updates, small ones every month and large ones every three months. (ie. new quests, dungeons, weapons, monsters, etc. that can only be accessed by elite players.) - Elite content will access higher - Can create guilds. - 24/7 Cust. Supp. - More character slots (12) - Larger shared stash - Increased Level Cap as content is released - Additional play modes, hardcore, pvp, rp, etc.. - Hopefully there will never be server ques but -if- there are then elites get priority. If someone can find out what "Elite content will access higher" means I would love to, the above list is a direct quote. It is Believed that elite items and other subscription features, such as character slots and larger stashes, will be "frozen" after you stop subscription. I've yet to find any information if new content areas will be frozen after dropping subscription, but it seems to be some what infered from the information out there. If you subscribe after release you will have access to any elite content released up to that date. Bill Roper, CEO of flagship, has added that "The idea with Elite content is to make sure they are things that, both immediately and stretching into the future, players want in a lot of aspects. Not just more monsters and items, but things that they would be surprised to get in a continuing content package, like character classes (usually those are reserved for expansions)." It's a good idea to note that level caps, character slots and other things as such are not yet finalized, but are suspected to be close to those numbers. It seems to me that the subscription model they have set up is certainly a different and interesting one, as long as they live up to a high standard of good content it may work well, of course if they don't live up to the communities expectations, well, i'm sure it will slip off the map and into the realm of the simile when another game tries this in the future. Penny Arcade has some interesting theories about how free/elite play are going to go down that are worth checking out Source : Hellgate Guru 1, Hellgate Guru 2, Gamespy

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